xx, 580 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm

"Paperback updated with a new afterword ... 2010"--T, p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

The left and American culture. Waiting for Lefty -- Anatomy of the cultural front. Marching on May Day. Ballads for Americans -- Formations of the cultural front. The decline and fall of the Lincoln republic. "The literary class war" : rethinking proletarian literature. "The tenement thinking". Grapes of wrath : "The art and science of migratin'". Labor on review : the popular front musical theater. Cabaret blues. The politics of magic : Orson Welles's allegories of anti-fascism. "Who's afraid of Big Bad Walt?" : Disney's radical cartoonists. American culture and socialist theory -- Conclusions, The old left : eleven outlined epitaphs -- The success and failure of the cultural front

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